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Grieving women
Object Number 2006.12.1.53.28
Display Title Grieving women
Descriptions
Object Description Michael Rockefeller negatives; Weake wakun; Plus X; 80 ASA; 35 negatives, 0-36, 1 blank
Classification
  • Documentary
Subject
  • People
Department Photographic
Date 6/11/1961
Artist Michael Clark Rockefeller
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea
Materials Negative, 35mm
Dimensions Overall: 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Family of Michael C. Rockefeller
Provenance
Donor Mary R. Morgan

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Grieving women
2006.12.1.53.25 Grieving women
Documentary
Papua New Guinea
Grieving women
2006.12.1.53.30 Grieving women
Documentary
Papua New Guinea
Grieving women
2006.12.1.53.29 Grieving women
Documentary
Papua New Guinea
Grieving women
2006.12.1.53.26 Grieving women
Documentary
Papua New Guinea
Grieving women
2006.12.1.53.27 Grieving women
Documentary
New Guinea
Grieving women
2006.12.1.53.7 Grieving women
Documentary
Papua New Guinea
Beginning of Weake's funeral
2006.12.1.53.3 Beginning of Weake's funeral
Documentary
New Guinea
about to kill some pigs
2006.12.1.53.16 about to kill some pigs
Documentary
New Guinea
Men and women mourning
2006.12.1.63.29 Men and women mourning
Documentary
New Guinea
mourning men
2006.12.1.53.24 mourning men
Documentary
New Guinea
In Halole's sili beginning of Weake's funeral; men have come to place the nyeraken aré on the little boy and stand ready to drape the child with cowrie strings
2006.12.1.53.1 In Halole's sili beginning of Weake's funeral; men have come to place the nyeraken aré on the little boy and stand ready to drape the child with cowrie strings
Documentary
New Guinea
Women are now mourning at the pia
2006.12.1.53.15 Women are now mourning at the pia
Documentary
New Guinea